500 Mid-America Boulevard Hot Springs, AR , 71913 Phone: 800-632-0583 The Mid-America Science Museum is It has 100 hands-on traveling and permanent exhibits. Many permanent exhibits were built in the early 1980s.
Several of Rowland Emett's "things" (kinetic sculptures) are at the museum, including The Featherstone-Kite Openwork Basketweave Mark Two Gentleman’s Flying Machine, and several that appear in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as inventions of the character Caractacus Potts.
One of the museum's permanent exhibits is the powerful conical Tesla coil, which can produce 1.5 million volts of electricity.[1]
The museum's building was originally completed in 1982 and designed by architects E. Verner Johnson & Associates of Boston and Stuck Frier Lane Scott Beisner of Jonesboro.
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Machine 3: Designs were:
1) Museum logo,
2) T-Rex head under name,
3) 'Hot Springs National Park=', logo.
Retired Machines/ Designs:
Retired 1: 'Mid America Museum Hot Springs', logo.
Retired 2: 1) Hot Springs National Park logo, 2) Mid America Science Museum spiral logo, 3) Mid America Science Museum T-Rex head.
Retired from Machine 2: 1) 'Mid America Museum Hot Springs National Park Arkansas', Old retired logo. '
6/17: logo design changed.
11-24-2024- I visited and the machine was in good working order. It is inside the gift shop.
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